daughters' fertility. To account for the endogeneity of parental death, we exploit the timing of deaths in a difference …-in-differences research design. Parental death has no statistically significant effect on daughters' fertility, even in situations where the … loss of informal childcare should be particularly pronounced. The absence of a fertility effect is strengthened by an …

Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility …. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women … effect, which reduces fertility. In contrast, if the time period when women work abroad does not coincide with the period …

This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since … birth. To address endogeneity of fertility to labour income, we use the same-sex instrument (Angrist and Evans, 1998) in a … novel way on a panel data set to uncover the time profile of the fertility effect. Our OLS estimates suggest that the …

In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby … a differences-in-differences design, I estimate the causal impact of the reform on fertility for up to 5 years. In … addition to demonstrating an up to 23% increase in the fertility of tertiary-educated women, I find a positive, statistically …

This study investigates the general equilibrium effects of a fertility shock under different intergenerational transfer … different tax schemes. The economic effects of a fertility shock vary substantially with different intergenerational transfer … the effects from a fertility shock it is vital that the effects on human capital are minimized. For a baby boom shock this …

children's health. The main result of this paper is that the correlation between economic growth and fertility rates runs in …